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"ref": "1697, John Dryden translating Vergil as Georgics, Book III, in The Works of Virgil, p. 121",
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"ref": "1598, John Marston, “Certaine Satyres”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image..., page 41",
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"ref": "1726, Alexander Pope & al., The Odyssey of Homer..., Book XIX",
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"text": "A sabre, when the warrior press'd to part,"
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"ref": "1803, Stephen Weston, Praise of Paris, page 58",
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"ref": "1892 June 2, Nature, page 118",
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"ref": "1642, Ralph Cudworth, A Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lords Supper, page 66",
"text": "Solinus reports it of the Vulcanian Hill in Sicily, that they which offered Sacrifice upon it, never put fire to it, but expected it should be kindled from Heaven.",
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